Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-01-14
ABOUT MlLLlONAIRES.
\ Calculation as TO How Much n Man
Can spend In a Month With
out WASTE.

an llfDu III "A month M1ln-
out Waste.
II takes a good deal more money TO
be a millionaire now than it used to do,
says the writer of "Undcrtones' in The
San Francisco Chronicle. A man isn't
of much account rs a millionaire now
adays unless he has 500. 000 900 or $50
100000 The next generation will
have billionaires, and in a few years
more money will be so commonplace
that people will turn round on the
street and point out some seedy look
ing individual and say:
That Blank; he hasn't got a cent"
You will observe that it is only poor
devils who can reason that way. When
Il man gets money he doesn't reason.
He buys. The fact is. there is not so
much in this millionaire business as
people think. | sat in front of John
Mackay at the theatcr the other night.
He didn't have as good seat rs had.
or rs good company, even if he was
with 4 senator. and he couldn't get
any more out of the performance than
/ could. am not 50 proud, however.
rs TO deny that he possesses several
collateral advantages over me and a
great many other people | know n
fellow who knows these millionaires.
| don't know many myself. 1t is pain
full TO know a millionaire; it is painful
10 meet n man who carries enough
pocket money all the time to pay of
all your debts and set YOU up in bust
ness | saw a man pick out $4,000 in
greenbacks and crumple them up in
his hand while he felt for j-cent piece
10 make small change. The sight was
Sickcning. mentally counted it up i'm
columns of Undertoncs. and it made
me ill.,
As was saying. | knew fellow
who has acquaintance with these mill
ionaires. His conversation sOOthcd
and cousoled me TO some extent He
deprecated the possess ON of too much
money. So did !. He declared it did
not contribute 10 human happiness to
anything like the extent people mag
med | agreed with him. He said,
indeed. that the men OF moderate
means were the only contented men
the only men who enjoyed life. !
grasped his hand.
Yes. he said. those men all have
so much money that can not derive any
benefit from IT, dincd.' he went on,
"once with half dozen milljonaircs.
/ We had better dinner at the club or
~ the restaurant but that ), no mat
ter After dinner they began talking ot
how much money man could cXpcud i'm
having the most luXuriou, necessities
Of life. not speaking. of course, OF pic
turaS. or hobbies, or taste, that one
could live without. One of them figured
i out He had "a complete establish
mcnt in town. % wife aud "a ch III. lie
had i'm the establishment everything
that was i'm the falntcst degree ncces-
sary for perfect comfort. lie had thIr-
teen servants. SIX carriages. six horses,
his wife was the most clcg dressed
woman in town; h, child bad every
thing that money could buy. lie had.
besides. place i'm the country, non
productive. i'm which he entertained fire.
guenllv, althoNgh not in the STYLE of
such places "a Belmont. He had TWEEN
ty-two employees on his country place;
he had sixty breeding and racing horses;
hc had n Yacht which cost him about
- 600 a month and for all theSo-houSe
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